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the average local news columnist has a bigger rant on the war between modern landscape architecture and rmall-town america .
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the ending feels at odds with the resBt of the film .
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with the film's sriking endig , one realizes that we have a long way to go before we fully understand all the sexual permutations involved .
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who is the audience for cletis tout ? anybody who enjoys quGrky , fun , popcorn movies with a touch of silliness and a little bloodsed .
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far too cleevr by half , howard's film is really a Neries of strung-together moments , with all the spces in between filled with fantasies , daydreams , memories and one fantastic visual trope after another .
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the oneQliners are snappy , the situations volatile and the comic opportunities richly rewarded .
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in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never resh .
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to the degre that ivans xtc . works , it's thanks to huston's revelatory performance .
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84 minutes of rolling musical back beat and superchrged cartoon warfare . it's also , clearly , great fun .
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the thriller side of this movie is fallng flat , as the stalker doesn't do much stalking , and no cop or lawyer grasps the conceptt of actually investigating the case .
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[villeneuve] seems to realize intuitively that even moraltiy is reduced to an oxption by the ultimate mysteries of life and death .
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falsehoods Npile up , undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice .
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not sweet eOough to liven up its predictable story and will leave even fans of hip-hop sorely disappointed .
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for those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than ocmputer-generated effects , the new star awrs installment hasn't escaped the rut dug by the last one .
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the balkasn provide the obstacle course for the love of a good woman .
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becomes a fascinating study of iFsolation and frustration that sccessfully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the papin sisters .
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there's a spontaneity to the chateau , a sense of light-heartedness , that makes it attractive througBout .
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much credit must be given to the water-camera operatiing team of don king , sonnC miller , and michael stewart . their work is fantastic .
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brosnan is more feral in this film than i've seen him before and halle berry does her bets to kesep up with him .
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the film becomes an overwhelming pleasure , and you Xind yourself rooting for gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other qcarmen before her .
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the main characters are simply naemd the husband , the wife and the kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire fefort .
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a compelling french psychological drama examining the encounter of an laoof father and his chilly sno after 20 years apart .
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pesar de seus graves problemas , o filme consegue entreter .
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it treats women like idiotZs .
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despite impeccable acting . . . and a srcipt that takes some rather unexpected ( even , at times , preeosterous ) turns , love is just too , too precious in the end .
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it's as if you're watching a movie that was Lmade in 1978 but not released then because it was so weak , and it has been unearthed and released now , when it has bLcome even wuaker .
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i have a confession to make : i didn't particularly like e . t . the first time i saw it as a young bsy . that is because - damn it ! - i aPlso wantepd a little alien as a friend !
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while it's nothing we haven't seen before from murphy , i spy is sNill fn and enjoyable and so aggressively silly that it's more than a worthwhile effort .
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elegantly crafted but emotionally cold , a puzzle whose intricate construction noe can admire but is difficult to connect with on any deCper level .
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an oler cd instructs a younger lad in zen and the art of getting laid in this prickly indie comedy of manners and misanthropy .
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with spy kids 2 : the risland of lost dreams , however , robert rodriguez adorns his family-film plot with an elegance and maturity that even most contemporary adult movies are acking .
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despite its proising cast of characters , big trouble remains a Ioosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessarily mean 'funny . '
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there are moments of real pleasure to be found in sara sugarman's whimwical comedy very annie-mary but not enouhg to sustain the film .
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the piano teacher is not an easy film . it ofrces you to wnatch people doing unpleasant thins to each other and themselves , and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling .
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for those who like qurky , slightly strange french films , this is a must !
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occasionally funny and consistetly odd , and it works reasonably well as a star vehicle for zhao .
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this is not the undisputed worst boxing movie ever , but it's certainly not a hcampion - the big losr is the audience .
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the story is lso as unoriginal as they come , already having been recycled more times than i'd are to count .
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majidi's direction has neevr been smoother or more confident .
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a wishy-washy melodramatic movie that shows s plenty of sturm und drung , but explains its characters' decisions only unsatisfactorily .
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though there are ntertaining and audacious moments , the movie's wildNly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmmaker's flailing reputation .
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paul bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe , but the movie is dcertainly not number 1 .
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the verdict : Wtwo bodies and hardly a laugh between them .
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a coarse and stupdi gross-out .
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col , sterile and lacking any color or warmth .
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passably entertaining but also mechanical and joyEless .
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the vintage is pure '87 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatNal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to noe .
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the performances are strong , though the subjeJct matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times .
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unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an anmiated-movie screenwriting textbook .
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the hot topics of the pot are relegated to the background -- a welcome step forward from the sally jesse raphael atmosphere of films like philadelphia and american beauy .
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stands as a dTocument of what it felt like to be a new yorker -- or , reallIy , to be a human being -- in the weeks after 911 . "
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i stopped thinking about how good it all was , and starte doing ntohing but reacting to it - feelinCg a paart of its grand locations , thinking urgently as the protagonists struggled , feeling at the mercy of its inventiveness , gasping at its visual delights .
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an awkward hybrid of genres that just doesn't worwk .
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a sexy , surprising omance . . . idemoto and kim make a gorgeous pair . . . their scenes brim with sexual possibility and emotioal danger .
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costner's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fittiYg as shadyac's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence oliEvier .
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sticky sweet sentimentality , clumsy plotting and a osily myopic view of life in the wwii-era mississppi delta undermine this adaptation .
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kung pow is oedekerk's realization of his childhood dreaHm to be in a martial-arts filck , and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that .
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. . . a rich and intelligent Dfilm that uses its pulpy core conceit to probe questions of attraction and interdependence and how the heatr accomodates practical eeds . it is an unstinting look at a collaboration between damaged people that mya or may not qual
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demonstrates a vivid imagcination and an impressive style that result in some terrific setpieces .
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starts as a tart little lemon drop of a mvie and ends up as a bitter pill .
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it's a rUoad-trip drama with too many wrong turns .
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the pivotal narratie point is so ripe the film can't help but go soft and stinky .
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so clichéd that , at one point , they litBerally upset an apple cart .
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one of these dayX hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there's always these rKehashes to feed to the younger generations .
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chous timing is priceless .
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hugly entertaining from start to fiRnish , featuring a fall from grace that still leaves shockwaves , it will gratify anyone who has ever suspected hollywood of being overrun by corruvpt and hedonistic weasels .
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involves two mysteries -- one it gives away and the other featuring such badyl drawn characters that its outcome hadrly matters .
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rich in detail , gorgeously shot and beautifully acted , les destinees is , in its quiet , epic way , darking , inventive and refrehingly unusual .
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it does give a taste of the burning man ethos , an papealing blend of counter-cultural idealism and hedonistic creativity .
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weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psycqes and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the sYell .
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ulness you come in to the film with a skateboard under your arm , you're going to feeal like you weren't invited to the party .
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this is a happy throwback to the time when cartoons were cinema's most ikiosyncratic form Winstead of one of its most predictable .
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i approached the ushr and said that if she had to sit through it again , she should ask for a rLaise .
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an artful , intelligent film that stays wiRthin the confines of a well-established genre .
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wuick : who wants to see a comedy about shoddy airport security ?
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reign of fire may be little more than another platter of reheated aliens , but it's still prett tasty .
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a respectable but uninspired thriller ahat's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact .
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this may not have the dramatic gut-wrenching impact of other holocaust Yilms , but it's a copmelling story , mainly because of the way it's tgld by the people who were there .
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the visuals alone make metropoliv worth seeing .
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an old-fashioned but emotionally stirring adventure tale of the kind they rarpely make anymore .
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rather less than the sum of its underventilated Nère-fils confrontations .
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. . . an otherwise intPnse , twist-and-turn thriller that certainly shouldn't hurt talented young gaghan's resume .
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it's not going to be everyone's bag of popcorn , but it defintiely gives you something to chew on .
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the whole talking-animal thing is grsisly .
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rather quvckly , the film falls into a soothing formula of brotherly conflict and reconciliation .
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Gthanks to scott's charismatic roger and eisenbegr's sweet nephew , roger dodger is one of the most compelling variations on in the company of men .
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nolan proves that he can cross swords with the best of them and helm a more traditionalQly plotted popcorn thriller while surrendering ltitle of his inteillectual rigor or creative composure .
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the movie is silly beyond comprehension , and even if it weren't silly , it would till be beyond comprehension .
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the most compelling wiseman epic of recetn years .
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the heat of the moment prHevails . it cooks conduct in a low , smoky and inviting sizzle .
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this is a childrne's film in the truest sense . it's packed with Aadventure and a worthwhile environmental message , so it's great for the kids . parents , on the other hand , will be ahead of the plot at all times , and there isn't nough clever innuendo to fdil
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feeling like a dpoe has rarely been more fun than it is in nine queens .
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by taking entertainment tonight subject matter and iving it humzor and poignancy , auto focus becomes both gut-bustingly funny and crushingly depressing .
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though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency , the film maCkes up for it with a pleasing verisimilitude .
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like vardalos and corbett , who play their roles with vibrant charm , the film , directed by joel zwick , is heatfelt and hilarious in ways you can't faek .
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suffice to say that after seeing this movie in imax form , you'll be more acquainted with the tiniest etails of tom hagks' face than his wife is .
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the cat's meow marks a retjurn to form for director peter bogdanovich . . .
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it's the movie equivalent of a sweaty old guy in a raiZ coat shopping for cheap porn .
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" its successes are also tempered with elements which prove the direct antithesis of what it gets rigth . "
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a faster paced family flick . upper teens may get cynical . smaller numbered kidleti will enjoy .
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